Cultural Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand

Cultural Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Claudia Bell (Ph. D.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780195584608

Addresses Cultural Studies as an emerging and increasingly important discipline in New Zealand.

New Zealand Identities

New Zealand Identities
Author: James H. Liu
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1776560000

Fifteen writers with diverse personal and scholarly backgrounds come together in this collection to examine issues of identity, viewing it as both a departing point and end destination for the various peoples who have come to call New Zealand "home." The essays reflect the diversity of thinking about identity across the social sciences as well as common themes that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Their explorations of the process of identity-making underscore the historical roots, dynamism, and plurality of ideas of national identity in New Zealand, offering a view not only of what has been but also what might be on the horizon.

Pakeha

Pakeha
Author: Michael King
Publisher:
Total Pages: 199
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Cognition and culture
ISBN: 9780140158687

Calling the Station Home

Calling the Station Home
Author: Michèle D. Dominy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780742509528

Combining historical, literary and ethnographic approaches, Calling the Station Home draws a fine-grained portrait of New Zealand high-country farm families whose material culture, social arrangements, geographic knowledge, and linguistic practices reveal the ways in which the social production of space and the spatial construction of society are mutually constituted. The book speaks directly to national and international debates about cultural legitimacy, indigenous land claims, and environmental resource management by highlighting settler-descendant expressions of belonging and indigeneity in the white British diaspora.

Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand

Cultural Safety in Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Dianne Wepa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107477441

This second edition presents a range of theoretical and practice-based perspectives adopted by experienced educators active in cultural safety education.

The Fixed and the Fickle

The Fixed and the Fickle
Author: Hans Mol
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0889206775

This volume describes the effect of religion on the identity of the native Maoris and Pakehas (white settlers in New Zealand. The description is woven around the idea that the fixed (identity) is constantly "unglued" by the fickle (change). The Maori charismatic movements are seen as attempts to absorb the devastating effects of Pakeha incursion into a viable system of meaning. Yet the white white settlers, too, had to tame the discontinuities with the past and the ravages of cultural change. Religion is seen to be at the forefront of the struggle to defend and reinforce the boundaries around the variety of identities. In presenting his thesis, the author has brought together a wide range of information—other anthropological and sociological studies, historical accounts, official statements, and religious census data. The volume will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, and religion.

Many Voices

Many Voices
Author: Henry Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2010-04-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1443821829

This collection of fourteen essays provides a starting point to re-think music and national identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers offer various perspectives on the interconnections between music and identity, while providing case-studies on diverse topics including performance, composition, and musical styles. Based on a conference held at the University of Otago, the book covers three broad themes: Cultural Diversity; Popular Culture; and, Education and High-Art. Within any nation, individuals might have a cultural identity that is related to notions of being or becoming, or they may live transcultural lives. One consequence of the nation-state is that notions of national identity are often challenged and continually changing, often brought about by social and cultural flows such as those connected with music. The intention of this book is to open up critical discourse on the many musics of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers represent a few sounds of a diverse nation, and sounds that do much to represent place, very often Aotearoa/New Zealand and beyond. The papers cannot cover everything, but what they can offer will hopefully open up further research on the many voices of those who call Aotearoa/New Zealand home.

Mana Tangatarua

Mana Tangatarua
Author: Zarine L. Rocha
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2017-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315309793

This volume explores mixed race/mixed ethnic identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Mixed race and mixed ethnic identity are growing in popularity as research topics around the world. This edited collection looks at mixed race and mixed ethnic identity in New Zealand: a unique context, as multiple ethnic identities have been officially recognised for more than 30 years. The book draws upon research across a range of disciplines, exploring the historical and contemporary ways in which official and social understandings of mixed race and ethnicity have changed. It focuses on the interactions between race, ethnicity, national identity, indigeneity and culture, especially in terms of visibility and self-defined identity in the New Zealand context. Mana Tangatarua situates New Zealand in the existing international scholarship, positioning experiences from New Zealand within theoretical understandings of mixedness. The chapters develop wider theories of mixed race and mixed ethnic identity, at macro and micro levels, looking at the interconnections between the two. The volume as a whole reveals the diverse ways in which mixed race is experienced and understood, providing a key contribution to the theory and development of mixed race globally.

New Zealand and the Sea

New Zealand and the Sea
Author: Frances Steel
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0947518711

As a group of islands in the far south-west Pacific Ocean, New Zealand has a history that is steeped in the sea. Its people have encountered the sea in many different ways: along the coast, in port, on ships, beneath the waves, behind a camera, and in the realm of the imagination. While New Zealanders have continually altered their marine environments, the ocean, too, has influenced their lives. A multi-disciplinary work encompassing history, marine science, archaeology and visual culture, New Zealand and the Sea explores New Zealand’s varied relationship with the sea, challenging the conventional view that history unfolds on land. Leading and emerging scholars highlight the dynamic, ocean-centred history of these islands and their inhabitants, offering fascinating new perspectives on New Zealand’s pasts. ‘The ocean has profoundly shaped culture across this narrow archipelago . . . The meeting of land and sea is central in historical accounts of Polynesian discovery and colonisation; European exploratory voyaging; sealing, whaling and the littoral communities that supported these plural occupations; and the mass migrant passage from Britain.’ – Frances Steel